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Nation & World
In praise of public service
Even while extolling the virtues of public service, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick focused on the pitfalls of public life during remarks in an Oct. 22 Harvard Kennedy School forum on “Inspiring Public Service.”
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Campus & Community
Few turning to civilians’ police board
The report was conducted by a team of researchers led by Christopher E. Stone, a professor of criminal justice at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Stone said the review board and the police department’s internal affairs system are suffering for a variety of reasons, some of them quite simple: They are not keeping…
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Campus & Community
NIH Heart Institute Director Heading for Harvard
Elizabeth Nabel; director of the $3 billion National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; told staff in a memo today that with “bittersweet emotions” she is leaving at the end of this year to become president and CEO of the Harvard University-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Faulkner Hospital in Boston…..
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Campus & Community
Harvard may alter some expansion plans
Harvard president Drew Faust indicated yesterday that there is a strong possibility the design of its much-anticipated $1 billion science complex, at the heart of the university’s expansion into Allston, may be scaled back as Harvard grapples with new financial realities….
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Health
Finding the seat of language?
A team of Harvard and University of California, San Diego (UCSD), researchers report having pinpointed an area of the brain where three essential components of language — word identification, grammar,…
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Campus & Community
Theodore Sizer dies at 77
Onetime Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Dean Theodore Sizer, who spent half a century as a teacher, education reformer, leader, author, and mentor, died Oct. 21 at his Harvard, Mass., home. He was 77.
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Nation & World
Making a difference
Harvard President Drew Faust shares her thoughts on public service work with U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Shaun Donovan.
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Campus & Community
Homecoming kickoff
The College Alumni Programs office of the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) invites alumni and their families to join classmates and friends this weekend (Oct. 23-24) for the kickoff of the Harvard College Homecoming celebration.
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Campus & Community
Save with Harvard’s Vendor Fair
Harvard University Strategic Procurement will host seminars Oct. 29 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on how to cut costs, work more efficiently, and be green.
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Campus & Community
Faust takes the long view
President Drew Faust addresses the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, discusses tough economic times, recommitment to expansion, and ties with Allston neighborhood.
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Nation & World
‘Human Rights as Public Service’
The Kennedy School’s Carr Center for Human Rights Policy celebrated its 10th anniversary in a forum Oct. 21 that examined what has been achieved in the past decade and what remains to be done.
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Nation & World
Clash of two worlds
Noted Turkish scholar Baskin Oran explores Western impact and Turkey in a six-part lecture series.
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Health
Nanowires go 2-D, 3-D
Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, scientists have determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging two- and three-dimensional structures with correspondingly advanced functions.
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Campus & Community
Funds available for faculty conducting research on Kuwait and the Gulf
The Harvard Kennedy School is now accepting applications for the fall 2009 funding cycle for the Kuwait Program Research Fund.
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Campus & Community
Phys Ed: Is Running Barefoot Better for You?
Daniel Lieberman, PhD, a professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University, studies and periodically practices barefoot running. His academic work focuses in part on how early man survived by evolving the ability to lope for long distances after prey, well before the advent of Nike shoes. There “is good evidence that humans have been…
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Campus & Community
Teachers’ house calls make pupils, parents feel at home
Boston, which is working in partnership with Harvard University, began its program two years ago and has expanded it to five elementary schools. It followed Springfield’s effort, which launched about five years ago as a partnership among that city’s teachers union, a middle school, and the Pioneer Valley Project, a faith-based community-organizing group that works…
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Arts & Culture
Deep into indigo
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma examines the educational value of indigo through a number of disciplines.
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Campus & Community
Results of AIDS vaccine trial ‘weak’ in second analysis
In an editorial accompanying the journal paper, Dr. Raphael Dolin of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston said the overall findings were nonetheless “of potentially great importance to the field of HIV research” because they might yield information about the kinds of immune responses necessary to provide protection against the virus….
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Campus & Community
Alcohol hinders having a baby through IVF, couples warned
Doctors at Harvard Medical School, in Boston, asked 2,574 couples about their drinking habits shortly before they embarked on a course of IVF treatment.
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Campus & Community
MessageMe test Thursday, Oct. 22
Harvard will conduct the semiannual test of its emergency notification system, MessageMe, Thursday (Oct. 22).
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Science & Tech
Harvard scientists bend nanowires into 2-D and 3-D structures
Taking nanomaterials to a new level of structural complexity, Harvard researchers have determined how to introduce kinks into arrow-straight nanowires, transforming them into zigzagging two- and three-dimensional structures with correspondingly…
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Health
Death by denial
Session examines harm done by those who, fueled by the Internet and selective evidence, say AIDS is not caused by the HIV virus.
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Arts & Culture
Avant-garde past and present
Alison Knowles, a pioneering independent artist, takes listeners back to the early days of Fluxus, a group still making art through improvisational performance.
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Campus & Community
Fans enjoy Cambridge Football Day
Harvard welcomed many football-loving residents of Cambridge on Saturday (Oct. 17) to its annual Cambridge Football Day.
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Campus & Community
Lafayette rolls over Harvard
The Harvard football team fell to Lafayette this past Saturday (Oct. 17) by a score of 35-18. It was the Crimson’s first loss to the Leopards since 1996.
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Campus & Community
A Cancer Visible To The Naked Eye, But Doctors Aren’t Looking
“We were very, very surprised,” Geller recalls. “About three-quarters of them were never trained in the skin cancer exam, and more than half never once practiced the examination during their primary care residency.” Geller, who’s a senior research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health, says those high levels of inexperience are really worrisome.…
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Science & Tech
McKibben’s movement: 350.org
Activist and author Bill McKibben ’82 takes to the pulpit in a plea for climate change action.
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Nation & World
‘Lessons from a Long War’
Ryan C. Crocker, a veteran of five ambassadorships in the Middle East, shares lessons from “every major setback.”
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Science & Tech
Bringing new meaning to the term scientific paper
An insight from the labs of Harvard chemist George M. Whitesides and cell biologist Donald Ingber is likely to make a fundamental shift in how biologists grow and study cells…